“Body to book” is an upcycling project that explores the relationship between the human body and books. It comprises six sculptures assembled from coat fragments and books, each covering a naked body. This arrangement invites explorations of sensuality and intimacy and encourages direct interaction with the subject. Through calling us to examine the subtle interactions between the body and the books, it offers new perspectives for artistic, philosophical and personal reflection on matter, media and the human condition.
Vit Havránek in conversation with the artist (5pm) ____________________________________________
Motto – 38 rue du Vertbois – 75003 Paris ____________________________________________
“body to book” is an upcycling project that explores the relationship between the human body and books. It comprises six sculptures assembled from coat fragments and books, each covering a naked body. This arrangement invites explorations of sensuality and intimacy and encourages direct interaction with the subject. Through calling us to examine the subtle interactions between the body and the books, it offers new perspectives for artistic, philosophical and personal reflection on matter, media and the human condition.
Bernhard Cella lives and works in Vienna and Trieste. Recent and past exhibitions include Color Inventory Booklaunch, Secession, Vienna (2024); Location Advantages, Vesch, Vienna (2024); Systema, Marseille (2024); Radical Matter, dieAngewandte, Vienna 2024; Xhibit – Various Exhibition Practices, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna (2024).
Vít Havránek is an art historian and curator with a focus on contemporary art and critical studies. Since 2019, he has served as Vice-Rector at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague and currently resides at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris. From 2002 to 2019, he was the director of tranzit.cz15(12.5%), part of a network of organizations active in five Central and Eastern European countries. He has also worked as an external editor for JRP Ringier and curated or co-curated exhibitions of various scales on different continents, including In the Matter of Art in Prague, U3 Triennale in Ljubljana, Jakarta Biennial 2017, and Manifesta 8. He is a co-founder of the group PAS, and his articles have been published in books and catalogues by JRP Ringier, Centre Pompidou, MoMA, MIT Press, Sternberg Press, and others.
ED4M Zine presentation and Screening ‘Making of ED4M’
November 8th, 2024 Screening starts 7 pm
+conversation with the artist with K1NO1 ____________________________________________
Motto – 38 rue du Vertbois – 75003 Paris ____________________________________________
The main character is the electric train type ED4M, one of the most common in Russia since the mid-90s. This small detective story unfolds on newsprint, featuring carriage vestibules, doors, handles, and wanted persons. It immerses the audience in the realm between the living and the dead, accompanied by the sound of wheels clattering, exploring space, ritual, collective recognition, and personal experience. The Tbilisi weekly sports newspaper served as the prototype for this book.
ED4M (Electric train Demikhovsky, type 4) is a series of Russian DC electric trains produced from 1996 to 2016 at the Demikhovsky Machine-Building Plant. The first batch with increased comfort was manufactured for the Moscow Railway between 1999 and 2000. During this period, ED4 and ED4M models became the most significant electric trains for local purposes.
Zine features photographs by Ivan Anisimov taken between 2019 and 2022 before he left Russia. Further shooting was continued by his son Danila, who took four rolls of 35mm film in winter 2023. Zine design by Aeona Melnikova.
Screening is a documentation of the printing process of a zine in a print facility, Tbilisi.
Ivan Anisimov was born in Pereslavl-Zalessky, Russia, in 1988. For more than 10 years, he has been engaged in documentary film and photography, collecting archives from lost photographs and videos. He has carried out several photographic projects and is now based in Paris, France.
The event is organized within the framework of the cinema club and Film Association K1NO1 Paris.
ED4 (Electric train Demikhovsky, type 4) is a series of Russian DC electric trains produced from 1996 to 2016 at the Demikhovsky Machine-Building Plant for the railways of Russia and the states of the republics of the former USSR. In the period from 1999 to 2000, the first batch of electric trains with an increased level of comfort were manufactured. This batch was by order of the Moscow Railway, and was necessary for the implementation of local flights. In 2000, the first set of AC electrical equipment for ED9M electric trains was supplied by Electrosila OJSC. It was from these deliveries that the active introduction of the equipment of this company into production began. During this period, trains of the ED4 and ED4M models were the most significant and widespread electric trains used for local purposes.
The book features photographs by Ivan Anisimov taken between 2019 and 2022 before he left Russia. Further shooting was continued by his son Danila in accordance with the list provided by his father. In total Danila took four rolls of 35mm film in winter 2023.
Geschichten & Skizzen (Book release) Sat 19.10. / 18h Motto / Vitrines Skalitzer Straße 68, Kreuzberg, 10997 Berlin, Germany
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Geschichten & Skizzen Eine fortlaufende Sammlung von Bildern und Geschichten, die in verschiedenen Gesprächssituationen entfaltet und besprochen werden können.
Outlines & Scenarios An ongoing collection of scenarios and sketches being rolled out and talked about in various conversations.
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Der Konzeptkünstler lebt und arbeitet zwischen Berlin und Athen. Seine künstlerische Tätigkeit ist performativ, poetisch und meist seriell. Schwerpunkte bilden dabei Eingriffe in bestehende Systeme sowie Konstruktionen sozialer Räume und interaktiver Ereignisformate. In seiner aktuellen Arbeit legt der Künstler seinen Namen ab.
SCREENING + Round Table Friday, October 11, 2024 at Motto Paris From 7:00 PM Round Table starts at 8:00 PM
QUATERNITE by Egor Shevchenko
Motto Paris is very happy to open its autumn/winter screening sessions with artist talks and round tables in collaboration with the K1N01 Association.
This video artwork was inspired by the I Ching 易經, an ancient Chinese divination system.
The work represents random combinations of 64 episodes, shot in France in 2018-2019. The story revolves around four characters lost in the narrative of the story itself.
Additionally, the work was created using the I Ching: the coins were thrown before filming each episode to determine the location, the actors, and the events to follow.
Soundtrack by Gela Lomaya
Round Table THE CRISIS OF NARRATIVE IN CINEMA
Narrative – history haunts people. At some point, the narrative crisis touched literature and was marked by the works of J.Joyce, A.Bely and then S.Beckett. can we feel “again” necessity to discuss such modern movements in contemporary cinema, It’s crisis and ways out. will we rest everything in status quo and will continue to be the part of the narrative automatisms in life and in cinema.
We invite everyone concerned to join the conversation; those who wish can prepare a presentation on the topic.
If you’ve got an extra chair, bring it to the round table
Motto 38 rue du Vertbois 75003 Paris
This post is related the upcoming film screening within the framework of the cinema club and Film Association K1NO1.
Launch of “Chroniques Terriennes” by Mathieu Cesar, published by Mars Amusements and Motto Books, Thursday October 10 at 6pm.
“Chroniques Terriennes” is a look-at book from the perspective of men and women, based on the idea of space adventure.
Mathieu Cesar’s encounter with the Ariane group enabled him to bring together old and new friends for an epistolary journey aboard a real rocket, the beautiful Ariane, the 6th of its kind. Signatures and photographic portraits bear witness to the richness of each encounter in a book that offers a fascinating mosaic of fraternity and an exploration of its many facets.
